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They’ll have the hottest, smartest girlfriends in all of Hogwarts. And they will have them by the end of the week. And they’ll most certainly keep them until graduation, because after all who wouldn’t want to be the other half of Sirius Black and Remus Lupin?

Here you go EHWIES. Funnily enough, after I talked to you I started writing, but alas, stuck again!

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This is just great, really.

Honestly, sometimes he wishes that he wasn’t a part of this whole thing, and just tucked up safe in bed, away from Sirius’s intruding eyes and his constant chatter about how James is going to lose.

It’s been a week already, and even though Sirius has been out on the prowl every single freaking day, nothing has happened to them. No girlfriends, nada. He’s getting sick of constantly having to look at girls and judge them, he doesn’t like doing that. He doesn’t like assessing them based on their looks, after all, he’s not much to look at .

Sirius like it though, it provides him with an opportunity to look at girls and judge them on whether or not they are pretty enough to be by their sides. Pretty enough to over-ride Lily, smart enough to prove to James they didn’t trick them into becoming their girlfriends.

But nothing has happened yet, and he’s getting ansty, trapped between two conflicting emotions. On one hand, he wants to support Sirius, he’s one of his closest friends, but on the other he hates the glares and smirks James sends him everyday down the breakfast table. Seriously, this feud has to stop, he’s sick of it.

But he can’t get out, he’s into deep.

Slowly, he’s drowning in the utter stupidness of the bet.

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The next day, straight after Charms, something happens that Remus never would have thought of. Sirius is walking ahead of him, bag over his shoulder and humming softly. Remus dawdles along slowly, head turned to the ground as not to watch as they walk by all the spots that happy memories were created, all those years ago.

The statue of the humpbacked witch where they first discovered how to escape from Hogwarts and into Hogsmede is to his left, and he glances at it fondly before shaking his head and moving on. Sirius is charging ahead in front of him, and he has no idea where they are going, they’re just moving.

Thanks I wrote it after reading through the notes from EHWIES and you, I think that's how Remus is going to be! Marlene on the other hand......... totally confident. And Em's just gonna be a bitch, and Sirius is my jerk! ;)

“Padfoot, where the hell are you going?” he shouts out, shaking his head. “Is this just some wild goose chase, or are we actually going to get somewhere?”

Sirius turns around, grinning. “We’re going to go spy.”

Intrigued, Remus walks closer, smiling. “On who?”

Sirius sighs. “Honestly. Who do you think?”

It’s like a lightbulb goes off in his head, and sadly he sighs. “Not again, Sirius. Seriously? Again?”

He shrugs. “It’s very valuable to watch them.”

“It’s a bit creepy, don’t you think so?”

“Creepy-shmeepy. If James didn’t want us to look in on him and Lily, he wouldn’t have betted us. We have to know what the opposition is doing, in order for us to conquer.” Sirius looks at him, an eyebrow raised. “You do want to conquer, don’t you?”

Remus nods, falling into step beside him. “This is the last time I’m coming with you on these stupid spying things though. I promise you that.”